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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Away Children Extinction Fought
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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It's not the having, it's the getting.

Getting Having Not Mindset
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Capacity Greater Our Our Time
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You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

About Character Eating Fellow
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Around Been Creator Environmental
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Cabinet Even Matter Me
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Believe Connected Human I Believe
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Else Every Every Time Getting
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Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Beings Between Cause Dedicated
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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Any Civil Civil Rights Continue
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The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Before Came Closest Ever
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I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

About Acting Away Been
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I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Bad Been Expect Getting
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Battle Been Bros Butt
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I love painting and have a need to do it.

I Love Love Need Painting
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

About Almost Dating Had
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Defying Doctors Doing Eat
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Physical Begin Continue Mental
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Hope Today Tomorrow Writing
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Apparent Arizona Capital Constitutional
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Exciting Exciting Things Innocence Most
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I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Constitution Drafting Look U.S.Constitution
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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Avoid Candidate Commenting Judges
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I have to keep testing myself.

Keep Myself Have Testing
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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.

Air Air Force Almost Almost Every Day
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
Ability Advance Anger Annoyance
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Difficulty Gain Glory Greater
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I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Court Get Little Sitting
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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Closed Door End Era
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If you're staying at home, broke, you're in quarantine, but if you're staying at home, broke and with trouble wife, you're in total lockdown

Quarantine Broke Home Money
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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Access Control Destiny Every
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The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Alone Certain Courtroom Eight
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